"The bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States ... India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020. Think of it. India can double their coal production. We're supposed to get rid of ours," he said Thursday.

But India doesn't take its commitment to preventing climate change lightly.

Originally a reluctant signatory, this week Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it would be a "morally criminal act" for the world not to do its part on climate change. New Delhi is yet to comment on Trump's decision.

Growing anger in India around air pollution and the economic benefits of cheaper, renewable sources of energy have made Modi's government a strong supporter of the agreement, CNN's Ravi Agrawal said.

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"(Trump's departure) doesn't change the bigger picture: the moral, political, and economic incentives all seem to be aligning in favor of staying with the Paris agreement," he said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a signing ceremony in Russia on June 1.

However experts say Modi isn't blind to the risks inherent in the United States withdrawal from the global climate change accord.

Professor Raghbendra Jha, executive director of the Australian National University's Australia South Asia Research Center, told CNN that India would fight to ensure the continuation of financial assistance as promised under the agreement.

"India needs to use its negotiating power as an emerging economic superpower to twist some of the agreements of the Paris accord (in their favor)," he said.

Under the Paris Agreement, developing nations such as India would be provided with financial assistance by their developed peers to assist in the transition to renewable energy

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India was late to ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

The country ranks as the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, behind only China and the United States.

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"(India is ratifying) keeping in view its development agenda, particularly the eradication of poverty and provision of basic needs for all its citizens ... and on the assumption of unencumbered availability of cleaner sources of energy and technologies and financial resources from around the world," the statement read.

Funding for developing nations was agreed to under the Paris Agreement, to help them make the move to renewable forms of energy.